Remarks of President Harry S. Truman at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

REMARAS PRARL Telle 13, 1950, 1.10 pu Logal Tima Governor "tainback, Admiral Badford, distiniguished guests of sala great Territory of It to estrainly a plosaure to have this short a alt in Honolulu. I sinceroly wish I could stay longer, in faot I agía a suggestion to ay advisore this sorning that we might take a vote on whother we shonla just let the situation drift and stay hore - but of course se aun's do that, yu can't do that. I am very interested in this purt of the vorld. I tras higniy appreciative of the fact that these young laites appeared in their nativo costumos. That vas an accomsodation to us. They looked very besutiful, and I inow that all of joyed the us lunaheon mach better on that account. I also that this Terrisory has furnished some vory able assistance in Korose and that your easualtion have besn vary great. I am sinceroly sorry sbout the carualties, but sonebody has to maet these situations, they eun's be met with and abones somebody is bourd to gat hart. Last night, before x loft Ban Proncisso, I visited the hospital at Feirfield onse, and ealled on those sounded who had just cone in from Koros. Those young men have mogificent morale, Secpotary Tace, General Bradley, and several others of the party went with me so that hospital ward. Thero wus not a single complaint. There was not a single man thore who did not feel that he was making the proper secrifice for country. If all of ua in the whole country bad that same of morale, we tould naver get Into trouble. 1 shink we are and gradually attaining that situation. Zt is difficult for us - for this Repoblio of curs -- to realise the of the Governant of the United States. In one generation wa have coma from an isolated Republis, which considered itself entirely sare with an ocean on saet alde of it, to the position of le adership of the world - the nost powarful nation in the vorld. And as the most poverful netion in the warld wa have to assane